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...Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., whose $7.2 billion in sales make it the nation's third largest supermarket chain (after Safeway and Kroger). Last week one of West Germany's largest food retailers unexpectedly took the 120-year-old company at its word. The private Tengelmann Group made a friendly deal to pay $78.5 million to four holders of A & P stock, including heirs of the founding Hartford family,* for their 42% controlling interest in the ailing giant...
...German company can certainly teach A&P much. Though highly secretive about profits, the group owns more than 2,000 stores in Germany and Austria with annual sales of $2.7 billion, and it places stress on gourmet food lines as well as in-shop butchers and bakers. Says one admiring competitor: "Haub took a store in Berlin, reduced the number of articles for sale from 6,000 to 1,200 and found that sales actually went up." A&P, which must slim still further before it can hope to recover, will not miss the lesson that less can mean more...
...19th century English Luddites smashed machines in a doomed effort to preserve the jobs of textile workers. California Rural Legal Assistance, a federally subsidized antipoverty group, does not go quite that far. But last week it filed suit in a state court in Oakland seeking to enjoin the University of California from using state money to develop farm machines. The C.R.L.A. charges that the introduction of more modern mechanical tomato, grape and lettuce pickers will primarily benefit large growers and will cost 120,000 California farm laborers their jobs...
...that it had fired nine prominent ambassadors from their posts, including U.N. Ambassador Fereydoun Hoveida, and Zahedi, though the latter said he would continue as the Shah's emissary. Not all the demonstrations, unfortunately, were peaceful-or approving. When the Shah's departure was revealed to a group of soldiers in Ahwaz, they poured into the streets, setting fire to cars and shooting wildly at crowds. At least 20 people were killed, 60 wounded...
...growing number of divorced parents are pushing for a more balanced solution to the question of who gets the kids: joint custody by both parents. Six Texas fathers and a group called Fathers for Equal Rights have brought a class-action suit against all the district court judges in the state, arguing that the denial of joint custody violates the principle of due process. A decision in the case, first of its kind to go to trial, could come at any time. Oregon, Iowa, Wisconsin and North Carolina have laws authorizing joint custody, and a dozen other states, including...